Parents and teachers could never understand.
My disdain for their authority.
Career and a future didn't interest me.
I'd rather skate instead, I need to be free!

I'll skate or, I'll skate or, I'll skate or die!

Breaking my back just to make ends meet.
A slave to my job for forty hours a week.
But when 5 o'clock rolls around.
I'm taking my board and I'm hitting the streets.

I'll skate or, I'll skate or, I'll skate or die!